GameSir Cyclone 2 review

Perhaps my gamepad standards have become a little skewed by spending hours upon hours with the DualSense. Still, even as much as I love it, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not quite the best PC gaming controller out there—even if it is a doddle to set up. Just for one major thing,…

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Pyromancer’s Key location in Avowed

If you’re taking the time to explore Avowed’s first region of Dawnshore, you’ll be treated to heaps of loot alongside tons of cool secrets and quests. Unlike most of the other unique keys you’ll hunt for in the Living Lands, the Pyromancer’s Key is a bit of a trek from the chest you’re actually trying…

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Should you kill or spare Ygwulf in Avowed?

Thanks to that mysterious god in your head, Avowed presents you with the unprecedented RPG protagonist opportunity to solve your own assassination. Once you eventually track your assassin down though, he’s conveniently had a change of heart. This leaves you with the option to kill or spare Ygwulf, or force him to confess to the…

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How to upgrade gear and get crafting materials in Avowed

Avowed is surprisingly challenging even right at the beginning, and if you don’t take time to upgrade your weapons and armour you’re going to get stuck looking at a quest log full of skulls warning you that you’re under-geared. It’s a never-ending process of gathering crafting and upgrade materials before returning to camp and enhancing…

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Bethesda refuses to announce that Oblivion remaster to spite me specifically, so I’m consoling myself with this gamejam based on its terri-brilliant persuasion wheel

I am more and more convinced that an insidious cabal of games industry executives—headed by ‘Todd Howard’ and ‘Phil Spencer’—is conspiring to prevent the rumoured Oblivion remaster/remake from releasing to drive me, specifically, to madness. No matter how much I will it, the game has been a no-show at every splashy, trailer-filled videogame event for…

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The Elder Scrolls 6 is offering one lucky player the chance to be made into an NPC for charity, but you’ll have to beat the current winning bid of $11,050 first

Bethesda is currently offering up the chance for one player to be created into an NPC for The Elder Scrolls 6. The exclusive experience is being offered as part of an online auction in aid of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and some big bids have already been made. “For the last several years, we have been…

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players are seized by the spirit of generosity, band together to buy strangers in need over $1,500 in copies

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game about war in medieval Bohemia, and all the grisly unpleasantness that entails—like, for instance, being branded a criminal forevermore due to simple mistakes, or worse, just straight-up getting your head lopped off. Its playerbase, however, seems altogether more wholesome: As proved by a recent gifting frenzy that took…

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